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Even solo performers have provoked consternation with novel choreography. Flamboyant Russian men's champion Yevgeny Plushenko's free program at the Skate Canada contest in November included sexy gyrations that some observers have called "scandalous," and provoked a Canadian official to grumble: "He was wiggling his all, three foot away from the judging panel . . . That's not sport...
...long as the rink is frozen, you can count on Russian teams winning medals in pairs and ice dancing. For the past half a century, in fact, at least one Russian pair has stood on the Olympic podium, and with the exception of one Games, when British dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won gold, Russian ice dancers have occupied the top spot in that event. Russian men have also dominated, bringing home gold in the past three Olympics, but oddly enough, no Russian has yet won Olympic gold in ladies' figure skating...
Back in the 1970s, Russian author Vladimir Voinovich wrote in The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Soldier Ivan Chonkin, his satirical novel on Soviet life: "Things on the collective farm were turning out bad. Well, not really all that bad, one could even say fine, but worse and worse every year...
Nozick team-taught a class this past semester about the role of philosophy in the Russian Revolution with Eric J. Lohr, assistant professor of history. As a University professor, Nozick was invited to teach across disciplinary boundaries, which he often did, relating his philosophical knowledge to other fields that interested...
...both died when he was young. The orphaned Manh soon found a new family in the Communist Party, which he joined at 22. The war between the north and the U.S.-backed south was in full swing, but Manh was sent to school rather than to battle, studying Russian in Hanoi and then forestry in the Soviet Union. When victorious communist troops entered Saigon in 1975, Manh was attending an Elite party training school for future leaders in Bac Can. After first joining the National Assembly at age 49, he climbed the ladder quickly. It was an ascent aided, some...